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Ian is joined by Rebecca Klar, technology and policy reporter at The Hill, to talk about the US government suing Apple for allegedly maintaining an illegal monopoly on smartphones. Also, hear the latest as the Bank of England votes to keep interest rates unchanged for another month at 5.25%. Meanwhile, thousands of women may be
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Wood Group, the London-listed oil sector engineer, is cutting hundreds of jobs nearly a year after talks about a takeover collapsed. Sky News understands that the company is expected to announce next week alongside its full-year results that it has launched a new cost efficiency programme that sources said would affect white-collar workers globally. One
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An Australian computer scientist is not ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, the pseudonym attributed to the unknown person widely credited with inventing Bitcoin, a High Court judge has ruled. Dr Craig Wright, who claimed he was Satoshi, was sued by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (Copa), a non-profit group that includes cryptocurrency firms. During the five-week trial, the
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For the first time in over a year house prices are more expensive than they were 12 months previously as high mortgage bills have not dampened demand for homes, according to the UK’s largest building society. While the cost of buying a house or flat slightly increased from month to month at certain points during
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Bitcoin has hit $60,000 for the first time since November 2021 – putting the cryptocurrency in touching distance of a new record high. One Bitcoin cost $60,519 early on Wednesday afternoon after days of huge rises. It’s close to the all time high of $60,655 recorded on 31 October 2021 when many people turned to
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Sony has revealed plans for 900 job losses across its Playstation division, with the company’s operations in the UK among those affected. The Japan-based firm notified staff in an email that the Playstation London studio was to be closed under the proposals. There would be job losses too at its Firesprite Studio in Liverpool, bought
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